Friday, January 11, 2013

In schools boys are being
systematically downgraded in favor of girls. No one much cares about it, either.

When they go out into the world beyond their homes, boys are being taught that the system is rigged against
them. They are being taught that success is not rewarded. They are being taught
that feminine behavior is more valued than masculine behavior.

It didn’t start yesterday. People did not start pointing it out yesterday. Christina Hoff Sommers has written extensively about
it. Susan Walsh at Hooking Up Smart has exposed it. Even your humble blogger
has opined about the topic.

Yesterday, Walsh posted again about the problem. She reported
on a recent study that quantified the extent of the bias. The study compared
the scores that boys and girls achieved in aptitude tests and the grades they
were awarded by their teachers.

The results demonstrated that schoolteachers are prejudiced against boys. When teachers do not just grade on performance, but include a number of intangible qualities that girls are more likely to possess, they are acting as bigots.

Boys are, in Walsh’s words, punished for being boys.

Walsh points out, however, that some boys receive more
favorable treatment. If their mannerisms are more effeminate boys not
subjected to the anti-male bias.

None of this comes as a revelation. One can only wonder why American parents have been cowed into allowing this prejudice to be inflicted on their sons.

7 comments:

As the father of 3 boys and 1 girl some thoughts about the "cowed" parents:

1) As an individual complaining about the mistreatment of your kids results in other problems. It's not worth the risk to rock the boat unless it is a major problem (which I have done on more than one occasion for other issues).

2) As a parent I want my kids to be prepared for the big bad world after they leave the nest. They may as well learn to deal with that kind of crap now because they'll certainly have to deal with it as adults.

3) Despite the school culture my boys have done very well for themselves and don't care about political correctness. In other words, despite all of the institutional bias it hasn't become ingrained into their personalities. Quite the opposite in fact.

As the mother of a strongly math/science oriented "classic" boy (now a young man), I can back up what Hamlet's Fool has observed.

I sent my kids to a small, Catholic school where the PC staff are present in smaller numbers, can't hide behind union rules and were reminded, when necessary, by my husband and myself, of the true nature of boys.

My son has quietly resisted the prevailing culture and is currently considering two positions in the field of civil engineering. He joined the Marine Corps partway through college and observed that the Corps was the only place he felt he truly fit in. He had a difficult re-entry into college, but he sucked it up and is now reaping the rewards.

My new prayer is that he finds a young woman that appreciates a traditional male!

Stuart, thanks so much for the link. It's high time we were honest about what's really happening with boys in schools. Sommers was kicked out of the feminist corps for speaking the truth - it's taken the whole "end of men" phenomenon to get people to sit up and take notice.

As several commenters noted on my blog, the rewarding of effeminate behavior isn't doing those boys any favors either, as they reach adolescence and learn that girls do not appreciate those qualities.

It's good to hear that there are some parents who are standing up for their boys and are not allowing them to be influenced excessively by the culture in schools.

For a long time I have thought that Susan Walsh was exemplary for standing up for her children, so I am always happy to link her blog.

I fear that most parents do not have the courage to stand against the ambient culture, whether it's the schools or the media.

Everyone is happy that girls are doing so well, but no one seems to care that boys are being systematically being pushed to the rear.

As Susan points out, once girls become women and start looking for suitable mates, they will discover that there are not enough of them around. The boys who were pushed ahead in school because they were more effeminate will not become the men that women want to marry.

Of course, the nation's economic future will be less prosperous if we systematically devalue and demoralize the great majority of those who have a Y Chromosome.

Look at what our feminist education system is doing to our boys: http://www.illinoisloop.org/gender.htmlhttp://www.lifesitenews.com/news/eliminating-feminist-teacher-bias-erases-boys-falling-grades-study-finds